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IT IS WHAT IT IS: recognition in cinema and AI is automated

IT IS WHAT IT IS: recognition in cinema and AI is automated

We watch the recognition. We see the virtual image recognise itself in the actual image. Why didn't this happen in painting? or in photography? It does to a larger extent in photography, because of the instant (which becomes something of a fetish in photography). The instant has temporal

The Weirdness of the Crystal Image in Cinema 2

The Weirdness of the Crystal Image in Cinema 2

Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality

Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality

reading Bergson: after the advent of cinema, series 1

reading Bergson: after the advent of cinema, series 1

the painter of mental scenery

the painter of mental scenery

AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns

AI Perceptual Ontology: better AI through better metaphysics by turns

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema (to be contd.)

Bergson, Deleuze & Cinema (to be contd.)

journal

“I don’t think character exists anymore.” –Rachel Cusk

“I don’t think character exists anymore.” –Rachel Cusk

... which is strange because this morning I was thinking exactly the same thing. However the thought is bluntly disputed by Brittany Allen. In her squib on Rachel Cusk's Life of M, more than likely about Natalie Portman, Allen writes, "Yet those are people, in her pages."

Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images

Werner Herzog: we lack adequate images

"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

"the Oort Cloud has been functioning for billions of years as a sort of 'natural LLM'"

อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach

อ่าวนาง, Ao Nang & ไร่เลย์, Railay Beach

Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga

Stuart Cooke reads Sergio Pitol's El arte de la fuga

เกาะลันตา, Koh Lanta

เกาะลันตา, Koh Lanta

กระบี่, Krabi

กระบี่, Krabi

poetry

SYMPHONY

SYMPHONY

You are in a void. Describe the void. I have some notes here. Is this the moon? hanging no visible signs of support. poetry is for extracting one meaning puts down the notes straightens the pictures. to stop flapping is a relief to be done with the expectation collective action

Political Works

Political Works

moieties*

moieties*

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance

a journey (2016)

a journey (2016)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)

otherwriting

I Am Out of Control of My Own Material

I Am Out of Control of My Own Material

Charles Stivale, a scholar I admire and to whom I have been grateful on more than one occasion (not least for sending me his recently published book, On Painting, 2025, a translation of Deleuze's 1981 seminars), graciously read my "Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure

The Challenge of Writing a Novel: world, character creation and monstrosity

The Challenge of Writing a Novel: world, character creation and monstrosity

correspondence regarding "Cinema Signifies ..."

correspondence regarding "Cinema Signifies ..."

progress is a bad optic and the failure of political imagination

progress is a bad optic and the failure of political imagination

simile.ai | perfection = the absolute noncontingency of contingency

simile.ai | perfection = the absolute noncontingency of contingency

contempt

contempt

Stupidity, Idiocy and the Problem of Evil: art after genocide, part III

Stupidity, Idiocy and the Problem of Evil: art after genocide, part III